Jerry Garcia Quotes

One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as Sir Humphrey Davy noted when self-experimenting with nitrous oxide in 1819, and as Buddha noticed by sitting alone until all his social imprints atrophied and dropped away.

All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.

In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.

Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

I see all of them. All the colors.

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life.

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

We live in condensations of our imagination

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.